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The Bluesman is Always a Social Interpreter

Julio Finn

17 Jul 18

Summer

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin

POTUS Trump once stated that Reality TV was beneath him and then he was in debt. The marketer “extraordinaire” took the Apprentice made some deals and became President as the GOP saw a winnable compromise, even for the diminishing White Evangelist﻿

Now Donald Trumps pushes the edge of conservative protocols with the Bar Room trope of White Working Class and quite a few Black folks too. So are there anachronistic philosophical narratives of bygones, Yes. The question becomes will a political bloc be shaped by this anachronistic mind set or will the noise be muffed by a smart crowd

"Buettener wrote in National Geographic: “[A]bout three-quarters of human happiness is driven by six factors: strong economic growth, healthy life expectancy, quality social relationships, generosity, trust, and freedom to live the life that’s right for you.”﻿ The Altantic

I believe consciousness is connected to an understanding of pain, happiness and equanimity﻿. Yet why do human society look for an Authoritarian to guide government or vengeance of tribalism. The "animal spirit" of economic growth is also connected to a human spirit. Why the initial reasoning﻿ for religion and learned rituals. 7.5 yrs 92 months job growth Last time 1969 3.8% jobless rate﻿. Yet our land is unhappy, even when Whites have a medium household net worth of $132, 500.

We have a security crisis and a Moral crisis as POTUS has exhibited his determination to be powerful and supported by a backward nationalism, globally. Faith stands with Common People.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Philip K. Dick

INFOBITS OF INTEREST: ﻿

Dr. ERIC R. KANDEL - The Age of Insight.﻿ 2012.

"I became an even firmer believer in psychic determinism, Freud's idea that nothing in one's mental life occurs by chance

Likewise, understanding the biology in no way denies the richness or complexity of thought. Rather, by focusing one component of a mental process at a time, reduction can expand our view, allowing us to perceive previously unanticipated relationships between biological and psychological phenomena"

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You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on teeth...Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Charles R. Johnson.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.